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This remark came early in an address entitled "Can We Rehabilitate the Criminal," Bates, a solidly built, quick-witted, unaffected speaker, began his remarks in this vein: "I daresay there is considerable difference of opinion here on this subject. Furthermore, I am a bit hesitant about talking penology before such a gathering as this--between the Gloomy Gluecks on the one side and the Guiltless Gill on the other. (Loud and prolonged clapping) If I had said guilty, (aside to Gill) I suppose there wouldn't have been any applause...
...daresay a normal American child has never been born who consciously or unconsciously has not proudly felt himself a part of the City where lives his President and his Government. To those of us constituted with natural inclinations for public service there was added the hope (secretly entertained perhaps) that some day somehow we too would find ourselves in the National Capital close to the great wheels whose motion so controls the lives of our countrymen and directs the destiny of the Nation. As one of the latter class I confess a profound sense of gratitude that the turn...
...doing and publicly. The dining hall system is part of an experiment in unity, involving, to be sure, vivisection. The particular dog is not expected to profit greatly. An objection to the dining hall system is pretty much an objection to the purpose of the House Plan, and I daresay that one will be as unavailing as the other--for the time being, rightly so. Nobody, least of all the authorities empowered to act, will say that the evidence of a year and a half is conclusive...
...criticism of this morning's review. I have not yet seen the number which Mr. Code so ruthlessly and so wittily attacks. He may not, therefore, take me to task for combatting him on particular and inconsequential grounds. Perhaps the number may be as dull as he intimates. I daresay it is, but that is beside the point. I care not a whit what Mr. Code thinks of any particular number...
...what is the function of the class president? If perchance a student was blest with 250 pounds of beef, and because of this merit won a position on the line of the football team, he might become a class president. And the class would get on as well, I daresay, as if it had elected one of its young Disraelis instead...